Swiping left on magnetic stripes
Issue 160 | 16 August 2021
Swiping left on magnetic stripes
Vicki Hyman at Mastercard has been writing about the end of the magnetic stripe on our debit and credit cards:
In the early age of modern credit cards, they had to write down account information for each card-carrying customer by hand. Later, they used flatbed imprinting machines to record the card information on carbon pa…
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